26 Hotel Workers Defend Health Care
Workers and supporters at the Holiday Inn in Concord, CA, demonstrate and
march outside the hotel. Their union, UNITE HERE Local 2850, had been trying
to negotiate a new contract for a year with new owner Kevin Akash, who was
demanding that workers increase their payments for health insurance from
$40 to $700 per month. The average wage for a roomcleaner at the hotel was
$9.35 per hour, or about $1590 per month, before taxes. A month earlier
workers voted to reject the company demand and called for a boycott of the
hotel